Posts by Pascal Monett 19065 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
True words. Companies need to stop developers from just referring to GitHub. Take that library in-house, examine it, test it and then put it in production from your own server. When there's an update, check to see if it brings you anything. If it does, then you put it in your test environment and start over.
There is not one line of code in a production environment that should not be known and vetted.
Yes it does.
Do you know the location of the various US fleets ? China and Russia may know of one or two, but they don't know all the them. Those they do not know are secure.
Do you know the location of CIA safehouses in the world ? Neither does anyone else. They are secure, until the CIA thinks they're not and decommission them to create one somewhere else.
Security through obscurity works very well, just not on the Internet. At least, not if the target is interesting enough. I totally agree with the idea that the Itanium is not interesting for hackers.
That, plus the fact that the Stock Exchange is the most watched, audited and controlled place in the world - due to the overpowering flow of money - means that any hacking attempt will likely be flagged, traced and blocked faster than you can blink. On top of that, police authorities will treat it as a red alert priority one, putting every relevant asset on the case.
No, neither Russia nor China would be daft enough to mount an attack against any Stock Exchange, and no mere lone blackhat would dare try. So the fact that they're running Itanium is actually a very secondary concern.
Start by demanding that Facebook be actually transparent about what ads it shows to which people.
And throw The Zuck in jail if he doesn't comply. It is high time somebody kicked him down a notch - or ten.
Your terms do not govern my right of using my browser however I feel like using it.
This is just The Zuck in panic mode whenever someone else is controlling "his" information - especially when it doesn't make him look good (when did that ever happen ?).
The problem is that you never signed an actual contract. It's the miracle of the Internet and Terms of Service that you automatically accept when you use the site. If the terms change, which they definitely can, then it is up to you to not use the site if you don't agree.
Generally, if a website actually comes up with something I do not agree with, I will indeed no longer use the site (eh, LinkedIn ?). However, one must admit that Facebook has the easy upper hand here, because of the amount of people who basically have it connected intravenously.
So The Zuck just goes and makes a monopolistic dick move, because he can.
I really would like to see a class action lawsuit on that, but I don't see that you can complain legally.
No it won't, but it will please the white supremacist Nazi sympathizers who think that they are above the fray and don't want to see any people of any shade other than dead fish.
Except for those who carry the trash and mop the floors, of course.
However, it would seem that such policies will, in the end, be damaging to their lofty position as well.
So go for it. Continue bleeding economic value because you aren't intelligent enough to understand that you need everyone, not just masters and slaves, and everyone, including those 'brown people', need to have a valid chance to make it big, not just the dead fish color population.
How exactly do you make an irregular trip ? Do you go from point A to point B.2 instead of C ?
What does Uber know about how people react on the spur of the moment, such as seeing something and saying "oh, just stop me here" ?
I'm guessing that Uber demands that the driver bring the customer from the recorded starting point to the recorded destination, and customer satisfaction be damned. You said you wanted to go to Downton Abbey, and that's where you'll end up, even if your daughter called you in the middle of the trip and tearfully asked you to go pick her up.
"makes it possible for a client and server that have never connected to send data without any round trips between the devices "
So the server never gets the request from the client but it knows what to send where ? QUIC is using magic divination ?
There is obviously a notion that I'm missing here, but it seems to me that the protocol used does not prevent the request from needing to get to the server before the server can respond to it and that sounds like a round trip to me. I'm sure they know what they're doing, but my basic understanding of networking is insufficient for me to grasp the intended meaning of those words.
It's been a bit more than a decade now that someone finally found a use for blockchain, and the buzzword bingo has had it on the list since.
Blockchain here, blockchain there, lots of mouthy discourse and absolutely zero achievements.
Now they want to foist it on the statistical analysis machines, because of course they do. Astonishing they didn't think of it before.
Oh and, sure, please quadruple your budgets for the year after the worst economic period since 1929 and 2008 put together. Yeah, we'll get right on it.
Forrester. Should be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I'm sorry, we're talking about Minecraft. This is not a platform that enables bitcoin mining, or personal detail stealing.
It's a game. A small, block world game.
You're telling me that, all of sudden, I need Fort Knox protection to mine cobblestone ?
Fuck off.
"We’re not going to tolerate foreign interference in our elections or any criminal activity that threatens the sanctity of your vote or undermines public confidence in the outcome of the election "
You might want to have a word with OHSG currently lounging his fat ass in the Oval Office.
He's been undermining public confidence in the outcome of the election since he understood that he can't win it.
"allow its users to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies "
That is one thing that could finally wipe the slate clean of all the criminals and incompetents that are holding this market today.
I am expecting PayPal to give serious thought to security and transaction control in this wallet implementation, so that hacking them will become extremely difficult, if not impossible. That, plus the fact that PayPal cannot simply leave with the cash, means that other exchanges of dubious honesty (ie all of them, at the moment) will see a market downturn in the number of idiots customers trusting them with their funny money.
Also, I expect PayPal to not put extortionate costs on transactions, meaning acquiring and spending funny money will become more normal, like with any other debit card.
So I welcome this move from PayPal. Not that I'm going to embark on a journey into funny money, but because I view this as the taming of the shrew. Things are going to calm down on the funny money shenanigans and that can only be a Good Thing (TM).
I don't care that the hipsters find it cool. Wireless charging is just one more drop in the ocean of problems that is climate change.
Never have we found a worse way to waste electricity for the sake of convenience. Get your ass off the couch and plug that sucker in. You have limbs, you need the exercise.
Recently I had to get my Win 7/64 machine to update Defender, so I allowed the service again.
When the update was finished and the PC rebooted, I went to shut down Windows Update, as per usual. Except now, I can't. Borkzilla has decided that me, lowly user, is not qualified to disable Windows Update, even though Borkzilla is no longer bothering to update my version.
You think you know what's best for me, Borkzilla ? So do I. It's called Linux.
God I can't wait to retire to get rid of this shit.
I doubt that anyone will be able to create machine learning around software and hardware vulnerabilities. The problem with doing that is that you have to start by teaching the statistical analysis machine (or SAM) what a vulnerability is. It would likely be very tricky to create a database of vulnerabilities that a SAM could analyze.
Okay, I agree that lack of input control is often a gateway to gaining control of a computer, but honestly I think it is nigh impossible to teach a machine to react with the experience of a seasoned, state-level blackhat.
It is not AI, it's just statistics, and I don't think we can analyze vulnerabilities via statistics.
There seems to be a lot of hubbub going on about the Moon all of a sudden. Where's the money to put all that stuff in rockets to get it there ?
There is no real political will to go back to the Moon. There is scientific will, but scientists don't have any money.
Then you have Musk, be he wants to go to Mars, not the Moon.
I don't see any of that stuff being used on the Moon before a looong time.
I highly doubt that that will result in "even higher service delivery excellence".
If that automation is of the same kind as their website design for partners, it will just drag customers even deeper into the IBM rabbit role.
And yet IBM still makes $53 billion a year. Must be doing something right, but I can't imagine what.
If, however, they're only sending emails to existing customers, then there are a number of potential new customers that might get caught.
Except, of course, for the fact that the bug is rather hard to encounter since the buggy software is not compatible with Hyperflex in the first place, so I'd guess it's a bit difficult to encounter it.
Feels a bit like a case of headless chicken.
We need a chicken icon.
It is definitely a step in the right direction since it means that mobile phones will have to be compliant with a single model of charger, and that is a Good Thing (TM).
I have a drawer full of chargers with connectors of every kind imaginable (and probably some unimaginable ones). The day I can throw that into the recycling bin and replace it all with one or two truly universal chargers is a day I am looking forward to.
His employees shredded incriminating evidence, destroyed electronic media, and yet, with all these precautions, the IRS still knows what's in the emails, the codenames of the accomplices and probably much, much more.
Next time the FBI wants to crack an iPhone, instead of once again whining publicly for Apple to put in a backdoor, I think it should call the IRS for help.
That said, given that every time the FBI has whined about Apple, in the end it still proclaims that it got results without the backdoor, so maybe they already do.
The greatest set I was ever gifted with was the yellow medieval castle. I have practically an entire trunk load of bricks of every kind, plus the moon set that some parent graciously gifted me before my 10th birthday.
It is impossible to count the hours that I have spent building and tearing things down with all those bricks. Everything could be repurposed, set to another use, and it was always fun.
Now, of course, I'm an old fart and don't really like kneeling for hours any more. But whe, three XMASes ago, I saw my nephew get the Saturn V, I was initially impressed. Of course, on XMas morning, he started about building it. I watched, bemused, as he spent about three hours putting it together. And all the while he did so, I was asking myself : and what else can you make with those specific parts ?
LEGO has changed to a point that I can no longer wish to follow. It used to be that you could use everything in a myriad of ways. Now, parts are so specialized that you can only use them in the set they were intended for.
That's a shame.
Yes, you obviously were. You are also apparently caught off guard by the notion of (gasp) actually updating your software.
I use LibreOffice, because for what I need to do, it fits the bill and, at a cost of zero, that bill works fine for me. I also view the frequent updates as a Good Thing (TM).
That said, I also view LibreOffice as a pale copy of what Office 95 would give me if I could still get it working today. Don't get me wrong, I respect the work that has been and still is being put in LibreOffice, but a contender to Microsoft Office it is not.
To read that OpenOffice hasn't had an update in 6 years makes me shudder to think of the state of things. Multiplan, anyone ? Word 4 ?
LibreOffice is obviously the future. Go LibreOffice.
We have now replaced the temperature problem with a pressure problem. Instead of cooling a mile of cable with liquid hydrogen (or whatever it is they use), we'll have to maintain that mile of cable under millions of atmospheres of pressure while zapping it with lasers.
I really don't see how this improves the situation.
Oh really ? Because the name Martin Shkreli means nothing to you ?
There doesn't need to be. It doesn't matter what he was using, what matters is that he very publicly shot himself in the foot by not having a reliable connection.
That is on par with Bill Gates' first presentation of Windows 95 that introduced the world to the wonders of the GUI of the future as well as the Blue Screen Of Death in one single presentation.
So they're getting x-rays from a merger that are stupendously bright. Did they point an optical telescope there to see if anything was visible ?
How about infra-red ? If the two neutron stars don't have nuclear fusion, they should certainly be radiating heat like crazy.
Of course, if they've become a black hole, then the source has to come from the jet, but couldn't the jet be visible if it 10,000 billion kilometers long ?
EDIT : after a short search, I found this article that details nicely all the important things about this merger, and there are many. But nothing on the jet.
What is it with all these major vendors that botch project after project ? It's at least the third time this year.
I cannot believe that there are so many incompetent project managers getting these high-profile projects. When you have a multi-million dollar (or pound/euro/whatever) project you put someone of experience in charge. The programmers don't necessarily need to be the best, but the project manager does.
Yes, there are clients that don't know what they want, or have internal politics that are murkier than a toilet after beer and tacos night, but that does not explain all these high-level failures coming from companies that have the experience to do better.
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